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Migration and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract:
Migration in sub-Saharan Africa, as in the rest of the world, has always been an essential element in the historical processes of social, political and economic change. Development (however defined) and migration are intertwined in a set of complex, heterogeneous, and changing relationships in which causality is never one way. In short, migration can be seen as a both a cause and consequence of development and, equally, development is both a cause and consequence of migration. Until relatively recently, the analysis of the overlap between the two processes has often been relegated to the margins of development studies. It is only in the 2000s that questions about the extent to which migration can help or hinder development have moved to the center of both academic and policy agendas, including that of the field of political economy.
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
International Development
Research group:
International Migration Institute
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Publisher:
Lynne Rienner Publishers
Host title:
Migration in the global political economy
Pages:
121-41
Publication date:
2011-01-01
Edition:
Accepted Manuscript
ISBN:
9781588267627


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English
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Deposit date:
2011-11-16

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